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Official NASA manual entitled ‘Spacecraft Prelaunch Test Procedure: Project Gemini Launch Countdown,’ prepared by McDonnell Aircraft Corporation (Distribution A), dated October 14, 1965 (SEDR H463-6), 8.5 x 11, containing pages 005-007 and 98-186, with the front cover annotated “SEDR H463-6 (36)” and “PCN #1 Incorporated,” and stamped with a received date of October 20, 1965. The manual serves as a step-by-step technical and operational document for the launch of the Gemini 6 spacecraft, which occurred from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 19 on December 15, 1965. Also included is a first edition of the Gemini 6 Mission Chart. Housed in a three-ring binder. In fine condition.
Accompanied by a letter of authenticity from the son of the original recipient, Dr. Joseph John Combs, Jr., who served as a medical director on NASA’s Project Gemini being conducted at McDonnell Aircraft in St. Louis, Missouri. “Dr. Combs was focused primarily on the biomedical recorders, and more specifically on ECG (cardiac) recordations to record heart rate during prolonged exposure to zero-G. As such, he interacted closely and daily with the Gemini astronauts, attaching and removing biomedical recording leads and interviewing them about perceived effects of induced space conditions…Dr. Combs became personal friends with many of the astronauts…I hereby certify and attest that the space memorabilia in the collection being auctioned are the real and actual articles gifted to my father, Dr. Combs, by the Gemini astronauts during the time my father served as a medical director at McDonnell Aircraft in the 1960s.”
